A flowchart for choosing your character's class

[Specter]

https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/flowcharts/which-dungeons-and-dragons-class-should-you-play

I gotta admit, it’s cool and very well designed. Next time a new player joins your club, they might enjoy this.

[KorvinStarmast]

https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/flowcharts/which-dungeons-and-dragons-class-should-you-play

I gotta admit, it’s cool and very well designed. Next time a new player joins your club, they might enjoy this.

Nice find. Will pass to our group tonight when we meet.
Thanks.

[jaappleton]

I like it!

Thumbs up.

[wilhelmdubdub]

Good answer for the person that shows up to a session 0 saying "I don't know what to play."

[Lazymancer]

https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/flowcharts/which-dungeons-and-dragons-class-should-you-play

I gotta admit, it’s cool and very well designed. Next time a new player joins your club, they might enjoy this.
Answering both "I want one or two supernatural nukes" and "I want flexibility, but I'm neither religious, nor academic" - ends up with Sorcerer.

And I didn't even look too deep.

[Beechgnome]

Answering both "I want one or two supernatural nukes" and "I want flexibility, but I'm neither religious, nor academic" - ends up with Sorcerer.

And I didn't even look too deep.

I think the chart has a number of opportunities to come back to an earlier choice. I don't think that's a flaw. It's a bit simplistic, but then, it is a flow chart.

[hymer]

One way to get to druid is to answer 'Meh' to 'Are you good with the gods?'.

Edit: And while you can arrive there from preferring to use strength in a fight, you can't by preferring to be nimble?

[Ninja_Prawn]

Answering both "I want one or two supernatural nukes" and "I want flexibility, but I'm neither religious, nor academic" - ends up with Sorcerer.

And I didn't even look too deep.

Are you saying that's a flaw? Because it looks like good design to me. Those two trains of thought are both valid reasons to play a sorcerer.


One way to get to druid is to answer 'Meh' to 'Are you good with the gods?'.

Or 'so cool' to wanting to turn into a bear. Edit: and dex-based druid is niche enough that it's fair to omit it from this flowchart, I reckon.

Aside: is there a name for that art style where pictures are replaced with semi-abstract blocks of flat colour?

[DGIF2015]

Awesome...thanks

[hymer]

Or 'so cool' to wanting to turn into a bear.
You'd have to say both, which makes little sense with FR being the standard D&D setting this edition.


and dex-based druid is niche enough that it's fair to omit it from this flowchart, I reckon.

How about a wis-based one? By this chart, you can only pursue a 'moon druid' path through the strength-option, which is highly misleading.

[Ninja_Prawn]

How about a wis-based one?

That's the 'connection with nature' path. I... think that was what I meant to say before. :S

[hymer]

That's the 'connection with nature' path. I... think that was what I meant to say before. :S

Okay, well, the 'connection with nature' path can't be gotten to by picking melee. Which is my big gripe here, the melee druid (whether moon or just shillelagh-based; even scimitar can be wielded with dex, and more likely will be) option is shaky, in more ways than one.

[DMBlackhart]

Aside: is there a name for that art style where pictures are replaced with semi-abstract blocks of flat colour?

I want to say minimalist? Or abstract. Lol

[Zman]

Pretty solid, definitely has uses with new players.

[Spectre9000]

You can't get to Warlock, Sorcerer, or Wizard by the melee route. You have Favored Soul (pre-****ing it up), Stone Sorcerer, and Storm Sorcerer for melee options for the Sorcerer. You have Pact of the Blade, and in general Hexblade for melee for the Warlock. You have Bladesinger and Dwarven Abjurerer for a melee wizard.

[Specter]

Some people just take abstractions too seriously.

[Puh Laden]

You can't get to Warlock, Sorcerer, or Wizard by the melee route. You have Favored Soul (pre-****ing it up), Stone Sorcerer, and Storm Sorcerer for melee options for the Sorcerer. You have Pact of the Blade, and in general Hexblade for melee for the Warlock. You have Bladesinger and Dwarven Abjurerer for a melee wizard.

You actually can get to warlock through melee.

>Charge in
>Nimble
>no kung fu
>Would not risk life for good story
>born schemer
>schemes involve allying with dark and strange elements

As for sorcerer and wizard, it's probably only taking PHB into account, and mountain dwarven abjurer is pretty niche, as it requires picking a specific subrace of a specific race.

[Armored Walrus]

Nitpicking a flowchart designed to simplify the process of choosing a character class by pointing out that it doesn't cover every possible class, skill, archetype, UA option, splat book, or unconventional character design.

You might be a GITP poster...

[BoringInfoGuy]

A neat tool. While the benefit to new players trying to figure out their first character is obvious, I could also see an old timer player using it to break out of a rut.

[Cl0001]

You can't get to Warlock, Sorcerer, or Wizard by the melee route. You have Favored Soul (pre-****ing it up), Stone Sorcerer, and Storm Sorcerer for melee options for the Sorcerer. You have Pact of the Blade, and in general Hexblade for melee for the Warlock. You have Bladesinger and Dwarven Abjurerer for a melee wizard.

But the class in general is magic based with ranged attacks. I could say the same thing with rogues and fighters with how they don't have a magic based route for their one archetype.

[BoringInfoGuy]

I think that it is safe to say that if you already know the classes well enough to spot how some variants are not included in the chart, then you have already outgrown the chart.